Paola Casale is reporting at EconomyInCrisis.org that Chinese chicken is being labeled as “Product of America.”

Back in 2014, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) approved U.S. born and raised chicken to be sent to China for processing before being shipped back to the states for our consumption.

Is there any up side? Apparently not...China is notorious for food safety standards.

Essentially, they don’t have any! Not to mention the fact that this is costing the U.S. jobs.

These processing factories could be opened up here in America!

They could offer thousands of jobs to the hundreds of thousands that are unemployed.

They could provide jobs and money to those who are stuck and buried in a hole with debt.

Then, to add fuel to the fire, the USDA does not even plan to require its own regulators to supervise the Chinese processors on the premises!

Contact your congressional representative and urge them to stand against this latest agreement between the USDA and China!

-Thom

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Tonight on The Big Picture on RT TV at 7pm and 10pm... How Do We End the Cycle of Violence? (check your local listings for stations or stream at RT or Free Speech TV, and catch past shows on Youtube)

Friday's Daily Stack

Article: "Dallas Shooting Leaves 5 Police Officers Dead; Suspect Is Killed" by Patrick McGee, Manny Fernandez, Jonah Engel Bromwich And Richard Pérez-Peña.

Article: "Dallas Shootings Were ‘Vicious’ and ‘Despicable,’ Obama Says" by Mark Landler.

Article: "Top adviser to Richard Nixon admitted that ‘War on Drugs’ was policy tool to go after anti-war protesters and ‘black people’" by Adam Edelman.

Law: "Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970".

Article: "War Gear Flows to Police Departments" by Matt Apuzzo.

Article: "The Uncomfortable Reason Why It Came To This In Dallas Yesterday" by Leon H. Wolf.

Article: "Independence Day Fact To Consider - US Ranked 41st In The World - Press Freedom" by Mark Taylor Canfield.

Article: "2016 World Press Freedom Index" by Reporters without borders.

Article: "Magna Carta" by British Library.

Article: "Australia data shows gun controls a huge success 20 years after mass shooting" by Byron Kaye and Wayne Cole.

Article: "Former Rep. Joe Walsh on Dallas shootings: ‘Obama has blood on his hands’" by Jessica Chasmar.

Article: "John Dillinger" by Wikipedia.

Article: "The Powell Memo or Powell Manifesto".

Case: "Buckley v. Valeo", 1976.

Site: Move to Amend

Case: "Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad", 1886.

Hour Two: Abolishing the Super PACs!
- Anne Weismann, Campaign For Accountability

Article: "Can super PACs be put back in the box?" by Matea Gold.

Article: "Free Speech For People Files FEC Complaint to End Super PACs" by Bri Holmes.

Case: "SpeechNow v FEC".

Case: "Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission" (2010).

GMO Labeling...Fighting For the Right to Decide
- Patty Lovera, Food & Water Watch

Article: "Let Me Decide: Label GMOs" by Food & Water Watch.

Article: "Campbell Soup becomes first major company to start GMO labeling" by Siddharth Cavale and Subrat Patnaik.

Article: "U.S. GMO food labeling bill passes Senate" by Chris Prentice.

Tweet: "These 6 Corporate Monsanto Democrats just sold out GMO labeling 4 campaign cash $ …".

Article: "Andy Sipowicz" by Wikipedia.

Book: Ratf**ked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America's Democracy by David Daley.

Article: "Ferguson unrest" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Death of Freddie Gray" by Wikipedia.

Talk Media News Segment:
- Bob Ney

Article: "Dallas: 5 police officers killed in ambush attack during protest" by TMN.

Article: "FBI didn’t record Clinton interview, did not administer sworn oath" by Julian Hattem.

Article: "FBI Director James Comey Breaks Federal Prosecutor Rules by Smearing but Not Indicting Clinton Over Emails" by Steven Rosenfeld.

Book: "Sideswiped: Lessons Learned Courtesy of the Hit Men of Capitol Hill" by Robert Ney.

Site: "Goats for the old Goat".

Site: Governor Free Don Siegelman

Article: "Quick Morning News - FBI Chief on the Hill: Clinton email server - July 7, 2016" by Victoria Jones.

Article: "Quick Morning News - Snipers In Dallas: 5 Dallas Officers Killed, 6 Wounded - July 8, 2016" by Victoria Jones.

Hour Three: Ice-Free Arctic...A Reality Soon?
- Professor Peter Wadhams, Cambridge University Polar Ocean Physics Group

Article: "Arctic could become ice-free for first time in more than 100,000 years, claims leading scientist" by Ian Johnston.

Site/movie: Carbon

Book: A Farewell to Ice by Peter Wadhams.

Book: The Legacy of Heorot by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, and Steven Barnes.

Site/movie: Last Hours

Article: "Trump International Hotel and Tower (2009) Chicago, Illinois" by Portland Cement Association.

Article: "Obama endorses Hillary Clinton" by TMN.

Article: "How 16 ships create as much pollution as all the cars in the world" by Fred Pearce, 21 November 2009.

Site: Black Lives Matter.

Article: "Occupy movement" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Students for a Democratic Society" (SDS) by Wikipedia.

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Should We Listen To Prison Guards On How To Police Without Guns?

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An Undercover Officer Shares His Thoughts On Police Violence.

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